NAOS is the adaptive optics system to be installed at one of the Nasmyth focus of the VLT. It was designed and manufactured by a French Consortium to provide compensated images to the high angular resolution IR spectro-imaging camera (CONICA) in the 1 to 5 micrometer spectral range. For bright sources, NAOS will achieve a Strehl ratio of 70% under average seeing conditions. It is equipped with a 185 actuator deformable mirror, a tip/tilt mirror and two wavefront sensors, one in the visible and one in the near IR. All the components of NAOS have been delivered and the integration phase is in progress since the beginning of 2000. After extensive tests and performance verifications in France, the system will be shipped to Chile by the end of 2000. The first light at the VLT is foreseen in the beginning of 2001.


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    Title :

    Status of the VLT Nasmyth adaptive optics system (NAOS)



    Conference:

    Adaptive Optical Systems Technology ; 2000 ; Munich,Germany


    Published in:

    Publication date :

    2000-07-07





    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English



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